4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily- - Friday, September 23, 1988 Cancer Continued from Page 1 The unit employs its own full time social worker to aid families in locating temporary residence and re- solve other problems encountered while a family member undergoes treatment. Bone marrow, an organ located inside human bones is the "home of the immune system," Messerschmidt said. Bone marrow produces red blood cells, which carry oxygen; platelets, which clot blood; and .'white blood cells, which combat infection. There are three methods of bone marrow transplants: allogeneic, syn- .geneic, and autologous. In an allo- geneic transplant, bonemarrow, from a sibling, or other blood relative is used in order to ensure a close genetic match to the infected Religious Services A VAVA VAVA American Baptist Campus Center First Baptist Church Huron St. (between State and Division) Across from Campus ' Sunday: 9:55 Whorship Service 11:15 Church School Classes for all ages Wednesdays: 5:30 (beginning September 14) Supper (free) and fellowship and Bible Study A get acquainted supper will be held Sunday, September 18, at 5:30. Please join us. Center open each day For information call 663-9376 Robert B. Wallace, pastor CAMPUS CHAPEL one block south of CCRB on Washtenaw) At 10:00 am: This Sunday's sermon will be "Paradox in the Pulpit", celebrating the 25th anniversary of Reverand Postema's ordination. At 6 pm: Service of Meditation, Prayer, plus music from the Taize' community in France Everyone is welcome! Canterbury House Holy Eucharist 5:00 pm supper 6:00 pm (no charge to students) patient. Yet, in such a process, the patient must be treated for possible rejection of the bone marrow. Syngeneic transplants are taken from an identical twin who has the same genes and the fear of rejection is not an issue. In autologous transplants, the method to be used at the University, bone marrow is taken from the pa- tients themselves. Messerschmidt considers this process the "wave of the future," in bone marrow trans- plants. "A bone marrow transplant is the same idea as an organ transplant," Messerschmidt explained. He out- lined the three basic principles in a transplant: -first, healthy transplanted marrow must have a place to attach; -second, all the cancerous cells must be permanently destroyed; and -finally when undergoing an allo- geneic transplant, lymph nodes must be suppressed or destroyed so as to avoid rejection of the transplanted bone marrow. The lymphnodes will SPE8RFARES Batmore . .. . ... fr $118 Choice IN BRIEF- resume functioning 6-12 months af- ter treatment. Previously, radiation therapy was used, to treat leukemia, but was not very effective in destroying the tumor permanently and caused the patient to feel ill. The University's program will alleviate some of the suffering patients must endure by "replacing total body irradiation with a better, less toxic drug, and by paying meticulous attention to (the) avoidance of infection," Messerschmidt said. Treatment can be administered to children and adults up to 70 years old. Previous methods could not treat patients older than 55. The transplant team expects to do between 80 and 120 autologous operations and 40 to 50 of the more complicated allogeneic transplants each year when the program is fully functional. The laminar flow units should be operational by February and initial treatment will begin in October. PASS IT AROUND ! Boston ........ Dallas......... Daytona Beach . . Houston . ... . Los Angeles .... New York ...... Seattle ........ St. Louis ....... Tampa........ fr $161 fr $218 fr $180 fr $198 fr $228 fr $138 fr $318 fr $ 80 fr $190 Continued from Page 1 Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports But Dr. Edward Pierce, a former . Ann Arbor mayor and honorary co- $7. i chair of the People's Campaign, said S&LS down $7.5 billion i 88 that before abortion was legalized by WASHINGTON - The nation's savings institutions lost $7.5 billion Roe vs. Wade in1973, women with in the first half of this year, the government reported yesterday, as a blood poisoning or in shock from il- Senate leader called for the biggest federal bailout in history. legal abortions would arrive in his The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said S&Ls lost $3.6 billion in the office three or four times a year. April-June quarter, a modest improvement over the $3.9 billion loss of "A woman will get (an abortion), the first quarter. whether legal or illegal," he said. The industry in only the first half of the year is already approaching Frey said she sees this proposal as the post-Depression record loss of $7.8 billion for all of 1987. "the first step toward denying all of Senate Banking Committee Chair William Proxmire (D-Wis.), who is Michigan the right to choose... Once retiring after building a reputation as a penny-pinching legislator during we start down this slipping slope, 31 years in office, said yesterday that the next Congress will have to there is no telling where we will appropriate at least $20 billion - about $81 for every person in the end." country - to bail out the industry. "This is just the beginning," p f agreed Caulk. "A constitutional tae to use pension tofig t amendment is what we reallywantRg" N. Ireland discrimination Life has been battling the pro-choice LANSING - Michigan will use the voting power of its pension fund forces in the state to prohibit Medi- stocks to fight discrimination against Roman Catholics in Northern caid-funded abortion. Right to Life Ireland under a bill which won approval in the House yesterday. won its battle in June of 1987, but a The House approved the measure on a 99-9 vote and sent it back to the series of court appeals have prevented Senate for quick technical reconsideration. the initiative from taking immediate The bill, sponsored by Sen. John Kelly (D-Grosse Pointe Woods), effect. In March, The People's Cam- urges U.S. companies with operations in Northern Ireland to live up to a paign for Choice garnered enough set of anti-discrimination guidelines known as the MacBride Principles, signatures to insure a referendum on by flexing the voting muscle of its $15 billion pension fund. November's ballot. The unemployment rate among Roman Catholics in that country is 2 - -1/2 times higher than that of Protestants, who make up a majority of the country. Blair McGowan, Michigan president of the Irish American Unity Conference, said employers can easily determine the religion of a job applicant by asking which schools they attended. State may enact waste laws LANSING - Individuals or corporations that improperly dispose of infectious medical waste would be guilty of a felony under a package of bills introduced yesterday by state legislators. The six bills would regulate the way generators of infectious medical Cd waste disposed of the material, as well as requiring a permit from the Department of Natural Resources for any facility transporting, treating, or storing infectious medical waste. The measures are a response to medical waste washing up on Great Lakes beaches and elsewhere in the United States. A handful of medical FIis I * Indestructible vials and 79 syringes of unknown origin washed up on two Michigan beaches this month. "We have a responsibility to protect the world's greatest fresh water 001 Indispensable supply from contamination and protect people from infectious waste," said Rep. Teola Hunter (D-Detroit). Incomparable State libel law may change LANSING - Michigan reporters and news outlets would regain stronger legal protection against libel lawsuits under legislation approved yesterday by a Senate committee. The bill would restore a legal-standard struck down in a 1986 state Supreme Court decision and make it harder for plaintiffs to collect r ' damages for erroneous stories. The bill, approved 5-0 by the Senate Judiciary Committee, now goes .J-w-l-y."-to the full Senate. It has passed the House, but would have to return there --5E" '-for consideration of minor Senate changes. 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EXTRAS City rejects 'heavy metal mating' steel sculpture WARREN (AP) - Thomas Gossett thought his sculpture of a stainless-steel bolt chasing a giant square nut was a fitting decoration for his business, Creative Metals Inc. But the city of Warren objected and the suggestive would-be work of art has been exiled to the back of his shop, where Gossett plans to separate the figures and set them up playing volleyball or something equally inofensive. Those objecting called it heavy metal mating. Officials in the Detroit suburb called it illegal. "It doesn't fall within the city's sign ordinance," said Mayor Ronald Bonkowski. "Our building department has received many calls and letters about this, this object, for want of a better word. The city suggested he remove it from in front of his business and he'did. We're happy about that." "I've seen it, and it doesn't qualify as a sign. Is it art? Not to me." The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: January through April - $15 in Ann Arbor, $22 outside the city. 1988 spring, summer, and fall term rates not yet available. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the National Student News Service. Editor in Chief..................REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN Managing Editor........................MARTHA SEVETSON News Editor.......................................EVE BECKER City Editor..............................MELISSA RAMSDELL Features Editor..................ELIZABETH ATKINS University Editor.............................ANDREW MILLS NEWS STAFF: Victoria Bauer, Dov Cohen, Donna ladipaolo, Steve Knopper, Kristine LaLonde, Eric Lemont, Michael Lustig, Alyssa Lustigman, Lisa Pollak, Micah Schmit, Anna Senkevitch, Marina Swain, Lawrence Rosenberg, David Schwartz, Ryan Tutak, Lisa Winer. 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